I did the basic research for this blog series a couple of years ago. Then, as usual, flitted along to the next thing that caught my interest. Now I'm trying to flesh the cases out and present to you my justification for not being a fan of walking along the canal on dark and lonely nights... For more canal deaths, check out the master post.
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The Monmouthshire Merlin of September 29th 1838 reported:
"On Saturday, the 15th instant, a man named David James, labourer, was drinking in Pontypool, and about ten o' clock at night, a friend led him over a bridge on the canal, into the fields leading to Cwm Honiscoy in his way to his lodgings - he being drunk, and left him to go home. It is supposed he attemtped to return to the town, and falling into the Canal Lock, was drowned. On the Monday following, the water was let out of the Canal, when the body was found. Mr. Hughes, the coroner, held inquests on both bodies, when the juries returned verdicts of accidental death."
David was just 30 when he was buried on September 18th 1838...
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The Monmouthshire Merlin of September 29th 1838 reported:
"On Saturday, the 15th instant, a man named David James, labourer, was drinking in Pontypool, and about ten o' clock at night, a friend led him over a bridge on the canal, into the fields leading to Cwm Honiscoy in his way to his lodgings - he being drunk, and left him to go home. It is supposed he attemtped to return to the town, and falling into the Canal Lock, was drowned. On the Monday following, the water was let out of the Canal, when the body was found. Mr. Hughes, the coroner, held inquests on both bodies, when the juries returned verdicts of accidental death."
David was just 30 when he was buried on September 18th 1838...
